I would try to make a light ply fire wall as the park 480 has a ton of torque I'm sure it would rip the stick mount right out of the plane. do a quick search on the ultrafly p-40 thats t is in theirs and it's plenty strong enough.

The guy at the hobby shop told me "good luck" when I said that I wanted to stick-mount an Eflite Park480 outrunner...

So are there other options that would place the motor far enough out to clear the cowl on the GWS-40? Has anyone done it?

The motor should be a blast in the GWS Warhawk if only I can get it mounted! It doesn't bother me that this is a $40 chunk of foam with a $70 motor. I like the way these GWS 'Birds go together.

Also, I am planning on making a balsa backing plate that would go behind the prop to glue the spinner cone on to...has anyone ever tried this?

Thanks for any insight.

The GWS40 has 2 stick mount holes. The bottom hole is aligned for the GWS motors using their mount, the top hole is aligned for the outrunners. I have the 480 in my gws40 and just glued the stick inplace, cut it down to the appropriate length, and mounted the motor as usual. Not a big issue at all.

savageone, thanks... I was looking into how the Ultrafly kit went together... until I saw jismail's post:

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Originally Posted by jismail

The GWS40 has 2 stick mount holes. The bottom hole is aligned for the GWS motors using their mount, the top hole is aligned for the outrunners. I have the 480 in my gws40 and just glued the stick inplace, cut it down to the appropriate length, and mounted the motor as usual. Not a big issue at all.

Nice! I love simple solutions.

And it doesn't torque out of place? Excellent... I have a GWS mount sitting around. I will try this when I get home.

How does the GWS-40 fly with the Park 480? Which prop did you go with?

I will probably run the stock 3 blade at first but I want to eventually move up to a 10x8 for some more speed...

My first attempt was with a 11x7 cause I thought the spinner size limited the thrust to much. I burned up the ESC doing that (to much amp draw I guess) The second attempt was with a cheap LHS 10x8 and I hade issues with prop balance losening the stick. My last attempt was with a higher quality 10" Master prop (I can't recall if it is 10x6 or 10x8 and I can't verify without pulling the spinner) and it did the trick. Just be easy on the throttle and ramp it up to full RPM soothly.

My first attempt was with a 11x7 cause I thought the spinner size limited the thrust to much. I burned up the ESC doing that (to much amp draw I guess) The second attempt was with a cheap LHS 10x8 and I hade issues with prop balance losening the stick. My last attempt was with a higher quality 10" Master prop (I can't recall if it is 10x6 or 10x8 and I can't verify without pulling the spinner) and it did the trick. Just be easy on the throttle and ramp it up to full RPM soothly.

here is a picture with the Master prop and Du-Bro spinner.

Whoa.. what was the rating on the ESC you burned up?

Scary though. I will stick with the 10x6 until I can check with a watt meter.

The 3" DuBro spinner does look good... but IIRC its really heavy, no? I saw one at the LHS (only had black and white) and it seemed better suited to nitro planes... unless you have a different model there?

Scary though. I will stick with the 10x6 until I can check with a watt meter.

The 3" DuBro spinner does look good... but IIRC its really heavy, no? I saw one at the LHS (only had black and white) and it seemed better suited to nitro planes... unless you have a different model there?

It is heavy. I had to add weight to the tail to offset it. But the 480 has more than enough power to pull it up with the added weight.